Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fisher helped the Crimson hold the edge in thefinal rebounding margin, reeling in a game-high13, but was unable to contribute offensively--thecenter found himself dogged from all sides and wasunable to get off clean shots, finishing with fivepoints on two-for-10 shooting...
...inhale and truths he didn't tell and women he hadn't slept with ("They were awake at the time," his aides privately explained). It was a leap of faith by the voters that put him there. At the very least, they wanted him to keep the office clean...
...defeat. He was with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide, the day of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's fatal plane crash, and the night consultant Dick Morris was thrown overboard at the 1996 Democratic National Convention because of a sex scandal. He knows how to clean up a mess. "The last thing he'd ever do is betray a friendship," Clinton once told the New York Times. "It's good to have a friend like that...
...recruitment fee" in China, she cannot return until she has earned at least enough to pay off the loan. "That comes close to the definition of indentured labor," says Allen Stayman, insular-affairs director at the U.S. Department of the Interior, who is pressuring the Northern Marianas to clean up sweatshop practices or face a federal takeover of immigration and labor controls. "The local immigration and labor departments are essentially organized crime," says Stayman. "It is one big scam." So big that foreign laborers outnumber natives...
...even Leno's monologue captured the nightgeist: "Let's move on." He then closed with three nice, clean, bland, always-good-for-a-laff jokes about Twinkies. Remember those? Letterman was playing catch-up with Air Force One jokes about the "right-wing conspiracy." It was sad. Really...